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Heroes Or Not, They Are a Credit to Our Society THEY Say They Are Not Heroes, but Most of Us Would Beg to Differ NORTHERN DISTRICTS M ODEL ENGINEERING SOCIETY (PERTH) INC. March — April 2021 Heroes or not, they are a credit to our society THEY say they are not heroes, but most of us would beg to differ... those men and women who put their lives and their properties on the line as they fight treacherous fires for the greater good of their communities. During the February Perth Hills bushfires, a couple of our members were at the fire front doing what, for them, comes naturally during such times, but for rural communities it can mean the difference between life and death; a future or devastation. One of our members had to comfort his fire-fighting colleague as he watched his home burn down while he was out helping others. Les said over 300 different brigades turned up to help, Our two club members who fought the fires from start including both volunteer and career firemen, “and to finish were Les Harris and Paul Costall, while other without them all our houses would have been lost”. members in the fire zone, such as Charles Coppack and Luckily his own house was spared by a sudden wind Paul Arney, had amazing escapes, although Paul did change when the fire front approached, sending the fire suffer some losses. north-west instead of westerly. Even after the fires had been contained, their job was “The fire missed us by about 500m but I was with still not done, as ongoing patrols were required to (fellow volunteer) Nathanial on the Monday night and he ensure there were no further outbreaks. watched his house burn down,” he said. During the week of the fires, Les did a crew change “Nathanial went on and did four more crew changes every day, meaning he put in five attendances – what he that week, as did two other fire fighters from our brigade says is “normal for a large fire”. On February 9, a who also lost their houses. This, unfortunately, is one of couple of days after the fires had been contained, Les the things we have to accept.” (Continued on page 3) and son Richard were back on an eight-hour patrol shift. Inside this issue: Above: A Volunteer brigade President’s report 2 approaching the scene of the fire in Gidgegannup. Technical matters 4 School holiday runs 5 Right: The Sikorsky Erickson Air Crane dropping 7,000 litres of Stan’s 90th birthday 7 water into the fire zone. Members’ run days 9 Photos courtesy Melanie Queen Street Mill 10 McGoldrick — Lancelin BR 4MT locomotive 12 Volunteer Fire & Rescue President’s Report for February 2021 I’LL start off with some positive news for Although its’s not immediately obvious the last period, which is the fact that our from the numbers, our waste management has local MLA visited the club on our last run reduced from a cost of $413 to $186.60 - $93 day and advised that a grant of $20,000 had … a net turnaround of $506.60 from last year. been approved, primarily for a public BBQ Thanks to Andy Molnar and Steve Briggs for should Labor win the next State election. setting up the collection system. We urge you This will allow us to install a new public to bring your cans and bottles down to the BBQ facility in the picnic grounds, with club so that we can continue to run our waste some money left over for something else at no net cost to the club. (to be voted on by members). We will need President’s Report One of our current projects, the fabrication to decide whether to make the BBQ electric By Geoff Wilkinson of the first of the raised carriage sidings in the or gas and we will vote on that once we big shed, is starting to take shape, with Steve know the full cost implications of each option. Briggs and Richard Turner having bent up a number of We have sent to all members via email some recent legs at Ron’s place during the week and Andy Molnar has correspondence relating to the AALS insurance. been drawing up the ramp sections which, cost permitting, Unfortunately, a number of derailment incidents in could be made of aluminium — the decision on final the Eastern States have resulted in injury to passengers configuration of the ramp is still to be debated. and a number of insurance claims that have had the Russell Williams has been busy getting quotes for the effect of increasing our insurance premiums. This is a work required to install the new kitchen entry. The City of big wake-up call for us although the proposed Stirling will not allow us to do this work ourselves unscheduled visits by AALS inspectors to clubs should because it is a modification to a City building and they not be of concern to us, as I believe we are fully require a certified builder to undertake the work. In the compliant. Our Competent Person is very active, as has meanwhile, the kitchen air conditioner is scheduled to be been our Compliance Committee. We do, perhaps, installed early March. need to re-focus and consider the seriousness and As mentioned previously, we are starting to refurbish the possible flow-on effects of derailments. raised track carriages as our most recent workshop project. We have already started work on upgrading the All members are invited to help with this project which is raised track carriages, but there are always safety to be carried out entirely in our workshop. If you are improvements that can be made anywhere around our willing to be involved, please get in touch with our facilities. This will be addressed in greater depth over workshop manager, Bill Beattie, or Phill Gibbons. This is the next period. One point I will make is that our an excellent opportunity to learn about carriage insurance premium is simply a cost of doing business construction ... No prior experience required! and should not be the driving motivation here; people Another project that Russell Williams is heading up is have been hurt and that is the take-away for us. We the replacement of all emergency trackside fire hoses with don’t want anybody to suffer any injury on our more appropriate equipment. This project has the potential premises, or at any other club venue. to become bigger than Ben Hur because the ring main may The two school holiday run days and public run day need to be replaced, but it’s something that we will have in January went off as well as could be expected, with to tackle at some point, and we are aiming to get it the unfortunate interruption to the public run afternoon completed during winter 2021. session. Patron numbers are down from last year, of At the time of writing, the bookings for the February 28 course, but we seem to have found a manageable run day are looking very similar to January — forecasting number by limiting the on-line bookings to 150 people. 150 people for the morning session and possibly 80 for the On top of that we always get a number of walk-ins. afternoon. Many thanks to Paul James and others for the Stan Armstrong’s 90th birthday celebration in January work on the grounds on a very hot Tuesday, February 23, (see article on page 7) was another great evening, in preparation for the weekend run. thanks to all the helpers and bell ringers! We all wish The run day for March, 2021, having been set up some Stan congratulations on reaching this milestone. What time ago, has two sessions, but we have set up all the a busy month January was! remaining months as morning sessions only at this time. We have printed out financial reports for the period Whilst we can put the afternoon sessions in place now, it from September 30, 2020 to February 23, 2021 and is felt that the membership needs to review its appetite to have put them up on the whiteboard in the club room continue with two sessions each run day past March. foyer. Please feel free to query any items on these Our Saturday morning club days are starting to attract reports. more members, (continued on page 3) Page 2 Perth Hills fires (cont…) (Continued from page 1) Paul said this was not unusual, with brigades from as Les said he was finding it hard to accept the general far north as Lancelin and south to Esperance being view that victims of fire could always rebuild if insured. brought in, as well as career fire fighters and DPAW “Most of our brigade are younger than 50. I am 75 in (Dept of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions). May and my wife is one year behind me. Yes, I have Paul said the community response had been amazing, insurance, but I don’t have years on my side,” he said. “If with people coming in with sandwiches, drinks, etc. we lose our house, it will take at least five years to get an “It brings out the best in people,” he said. “We don’t insurance payout, go through building/planning consider ourselves heroes, as the media suggests, we permissions and build again. I don’t have those years, as I are just doing our bit. Thanks to all the NDMES would be 80 and possibly not even be here. members for their concern for us, it’s appreciated.” “Also, as we have been married for 52 years, all our Fortunately, Paul’s Mt Helena property escaped the memories are tied up in our house and belongings.
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